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Past-year Pap smear testing rates were lower in 2022 than in 2019, highlighting the need to increase screening access, especially in rural areas, to prevent cervical cancer, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Researchers found that screening men for perpetration may be more useful than screening women for victimization to identify and prevent intimate partner violence.

WHO reported a “major” increase in STIs in 2022, specifically highlighting an increase in syphilis and an insufficient decline in new HIV and viral hepatitis infections.

Men vaccinated for HPV less frequently developed all related cancers, particularly head and neck cancers, according to findings scheduled for presentation at ASCO Annual Meeting.

In France, HPV vaccination at school significantly increased vaccination coverage among adolescents aged 11 to 14 years, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

A 5-year interval between cervical cancer screenings using HPV testing does not increase risk for cervical precancer detection compared with cytology every 3 years and may be a more effective screening method long term, researchers report.

The FDA approved expanded indications for two HPV tests allowing for the patient to self-collect a vaginal swab in a health care setting when it is not possible for the clinician to collect a cervical specimen, according to a press release.

In this video from the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Sean T. O’Leary, MD, MPH, describes a novel method of participatory research that improved HPV vaccine uptake in six Colorado pediatric practices.

School entry requirements are associated with increases in HPV vaccine coverage among adolescents in the United States, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Vaccinations in general do not increase the risk for systemic lupus erythematosus, but hepatitis B vaccines may have a “significant connection” with the disease, according to a meta-analysis published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.